Japanese Internment

The Japanese-American Internment in Topaz, Utah For as long as mankind can remember, prejudice in one form or another has always been apparent in the world. For some, it is religion, color, or race. But, during the second world war, prejudices were directed at people whose nationalities weren’t of native American blood. The Japanese-Americans were exploited and forced into “relocation camps” during World War II all because the American government thought of them as …

…as conspiring with the enemies just because they were of a different race. Extreme senses of nationalism and “keeping America for Americans” was what fueled the hatred and the expulsion of the Japanese. The Japanese-Americans were exploited and forced into “relocation camps” during World War II all because the American government thought of them as a threat to American society, when really all they wanted was a piece of that American apple pie. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**